PCA officials review contracts

Criticism over UI's Anheuser-Busch deal led to move

11:56 PM,
Oct. 4, 2012

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Tara Bannow
| Iowa City Press-Citizen

The University of Iowa holds 132 sponsorship contracts with businesses and organizations across the state worth a total of about $6 million per year, the chair of the Presidential Committee on Athletics said Thursday.

Following a flurry of public criticism over UI's controversial Anheuser-Busch contract, the PCA's executive committee reviewed the contracts as well as Learfield Sports, the marketing entity that manages them.

N. William Hines, a law professor appointed by UI President Sally Mason to chair the PCA, said it was interesting to learn about the contracts, in which companies ...